Get the Promotion and Salary You Deserve, Part 2

Determining your professional worth

Our first article on this topic, salary negotiations and prepping for the interview is just the initial step to getting that promotion you’re after. Here, we dive into how to determine your professional worth. Understanding how this calculation is made before you sit down at the negotiation table can make a monumental difference on your future paycheck.

Step 1: Do the Research

There are a half dozen factors that go into determining your professional worth at any given point in your career. For most of us, the number starts low and ideally, grows exponentially throughout your career. It doesn’t always happen in a perfectly linear way, but in general terms, your value to the right company should be significantly more today than it was 10 or 20 years ago.

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